It's about 60 km from Bratislava to Vienna, so I guess that the airport is right between the two cities.

That sounds interesting, maybe I'll go to Austria on Saturday/Sunday. Unfortunately I'm going to write two university tests on Monday, so that's not certain yet.

Anyway, good job Tristan! If needed I can help with some translations or the production of S2 demo CDs.

Nowhere, because there is no official CD cover available.

Don has made an unofficial CD cover for LFS S1, you can download it here:
http://www.4players.de/renders ... T=119&DOWNLOADID=7117


Edit: Sorry Don, I don't know what I've been thinking when I wrote that post

Last edited by GP4Flo, Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:42.

Nothing special about the rainy pics in my opinion, I can't even see any realistic spray there. For me the rain in Grand Prix 4 (2002) looked much better with wet/dry patches on the road and not just some super-reflective ice.

Edit: And a pic of GP3's (2000) rain which in my opinion looks better as well.

Last edited by GP4Flo, Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:20.

Scawen did make some posts here recently, just no progress reports. I guess he's working on the physics, so there's not much to tell except things like "yesterday I tested two different formulas for calculating the correct wind resistance depending on the suspension height". But well, that would be at least a small news

Btw, patch Q isn't even 2 months old yet, it's just that this patch didn't include any major updates for most players.

Well, Victor is the sound man in the team and I guess he has enough experience to create better sounds - I just can't understand why we didn't see new sounds or musics from him for such a long time.

By the way, I've just sorted my music archive and put all RBDJ songs together I could find: 58 songs, correctly named including cover images. If you are interested, I can upload them somewhere.

I've also sorted all songs by Vic, 25 all in mp3 or aac format

Back to the Ferrari crash, some photos I found:

http://nelson-motorsports.com/nose.jpg
http://nelson-motorsports.com/f399.jpg
http://nelson-motorsports.com/f3991.jpg

Maybe the devs skip S2 and release S3 this year

I'm in too, I've just discovered last.fm

My lastfm profile:
http://www.last.fm/user/GP4Flo/

I think LFS has a problem with simulating friction values of the tyre when you are driving on the tyrewall. This is exactly what happens here, after hopping over a curb. Instead of decreased friction because of the much lower contact area, it increases a lot (the peaks in your graph) and causes the high g values or a flip in the worst case. I've already tested this behaviour quite some time ago and got similar results.

Maybe this tutorial will help you:
http://www.lfswiki.net/index.p ... Manual:3D_Render_Tutorial

Quote from AJS :

You would not do this when you would be driving !

That's true. When I'm driving, my passengers usually push their imaginary brakes

You could try LFS S1 and switch on/off simple car to see if the reflections are causing the slowdown.

No difference in FPS between old (5.x) and 5.13 driver. My system specs:

ATI Radeon 9600 (Sapphire Atlantis) 128 MB AGP 4x, passive cooled
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (no HT) 2 Ghz, 512 MB RAM
Win XP SP2, DirectX 9.0c

Quote from Madman_CZ :

well i think that Bobs advanced setup guide should be added to the cd as it is very helpfull for all be it begginer or advanced and i also think adding your Gear ratio calculator wouldnt be bad either...

very good contributions IMO to the lfs community....

u know Bob is the master!!!! we all should hail his masterness!!!!

:biggrinfl

mad

Bob's advanced setup guide is already included in the manual PDF.

Unfortunately I only received one cover so far. As there is no sight of a new LFS version yet, I think it's ok to extend the competition until the end of january.

That's what I have in ITunes:

Wir sind Helden :up:
Depeche Mode
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Victor van Vlaardingen
RBDJ
Moby
Die Fantastischen Vier
Fettes Brot
Robbie Williams
Coldplay
Juli

Plus various other stuff.

LFS is not open source, why arguing about it? Asking Scawen to release the source code of LFS is like asking Microsoft to release the source code of Windows.

There are already some open source "simulations" out there, so why don't you play and improve them?

There is always room for improvement, but somehow you have to get it started

How is the progress? It would be nice to have some designs up for voting in the next weeks

P.s. You can already send me your work. I won't post it here until the deadline, so no-one can steal your ideas

I've added a password protection for the LFSWiki to prevent the nasty spammers. Just use 'lfswiki' as username and password to login.

Ok, so now we already have some high-res textures (skies, driver suits, braking discs). If you are interested, I could put them all in one installer and upload the file as a test.